The St. Johns herald., 1887-01-20

Stock Growers Association, nor any
 prospect of having one, to resist
 the organized monopolies which
 are throttling the live stock..indus-
 try; with no organized body having
 authority 10 make a decent appeal
 to the executive of the Territory for
 protection to our herds against tho encroachments of bovine diseases:
 with nineteen, out of every twenty
 persons engaged in the growing of cattle in Arizona unwilling to con- tribute one farthing toward the nee- essary expense of ranchmen's as- sociations-either their local asso- citations ors that great organization at Denver, the International Range Association, whose officers by the magnitude of theirslabors have ex- torted the homage that is due to genius-is it any wonder under these circumstances that an organ ized monopoly has made the range cattlemen its victims, wrongfully appropriating to itself the profits of a legitimate industry, covering ranches three deep with three per cent mortgages, and threatening with bankruptcy hundreds of men who lived in princely affluence three short years ago?
 The Hoof and Horn- -advises the organization of Territorial Live Stock Association as a necessity. So it is, but who will represent the local associations this year, in view of the fact5 that they shave not yet repaid the actual expenses of their delegates to the Territorial Associa- tion two years ago? EThere is: no hope for the live stock interests of Arizona until the..leeches..andssbar nacles who have.-cursed..the cattle business are held.up to public exc cration, This indictment.includes the following classes, namely:
 1. All who are not members of some local ranchmen's association, or who, being members, do not promptly paytheir associatiendues and assessments.
 ?. All who do not subscribe for their local live stock paper; and also for one or more of the great range journals, which are nobiy struggling to overthrow the meat monopolies, the stock yards ring and the thousand and one conbi- nations that have strangled the live stock industry.
 A strong Territorial Association would be the natural result of live local associations.
 A subscription to a stockman's home paper is debt of honor. A failure to subscribe and pay for the stock journal published nearest his home is evidence of a cattleman's total depravity, The less cattle q man has, the harder times are, the more necessity to subscribe. From it he will learn the advantages of organization, of associated effort, without which he cannot save even the little he has. It is equally inn portant that every stockman sub man subscribe for at least one other range paper, one printed in some locality where the patronage justi- fies the publication of an expen- sive paper for a nominal price. There arc many such journals in the western country, in full sympa- thy with the live stock interests of Arizona; every issue is worth the annual subscription thereto. No one can read any of these papers without catching step with the men who are battling to rescue the live stock interests of the country from the grssp of the meat monopoly.
 Arizona cattlemen can declare quarantine of their own by simply refusing point blank to buy any cattle brought here from the States. Let 1t be understood that We will not take them asa gift until pleuro- pneumonia has been stamped out in Illinois. We must either do this until our Legislature gr;,nts us n three months quarantine, or calmly await tho 6acitnofiOn 0f nnr Horde